Education, civic virtue and populism
A consistent finding of research on education’s civic effects is that it fosters liberalism, respect, tolerance, and social responsibility. The growth of educational participation, according to...
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Tea and the Queen? Researching the enactment of the British values policy in schools
This presentation seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions. With regard to the former, I consider issues of citizenship, belonging and values in relation to contemporary...
Becoming and being an early career researcher – identity, practice and serendipity
Early career researchers have, until relatively recently, been invisible in the eyes of policy makers, with very little attention, historically, paid to their induction and professional...
Educational research: which way now?
BERA was established 43 years ago, in 1974, at the height of the postwar expansion of education, and at the onset of a long period of controversy and reform of education that has continued ever...
Exposing the Lie Within: legitimate culture, organisational protectionism and the quest for racial justice in higher education
In his seminal 1992 publication Faces at the bottom of the Well, the eminent scholar and founder of Critical Race Theory (CRT) Derrick Bell proffers what some might consider a harrowing and...
Interrupting the Politics of Learning; Reclaiming the Beautiful Risk of Education
The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable rise of the language of learning in education and in our lives more generally. Not only is it claimed that we live in an age of learning; we are...
Teacherbot: Interventions in Automated Teaching
Promises of enhanced ‘productivity’ via the automation of teaching have been with us since the early days of digital education, sometimes embraced by teachers and institutions, and sometimes...
Education for ‘political generosity’: the role of schools in supporting young people’s understanding of politically complex societies
Children and young people are growing up in contexts which are politically complex, often exacerbated by conflict or societal divisions. Yet, whilst it is generally accepted that schools have a...
Education in Conflict: Redefining the Contours of Change
Education in contemporary India is encumbered by the convergence between forces of economic globalisation and conservative ideology. Capitalising on the post-enlightenment social-subjective split,...
Knowledge, education and research: making common cause across communities of practice
This BERA presidential address considers how knowledge, education and research interact in practice, as the institutional structures that support them change. Many of the efforts at large-scale...
The Trials of Evidence-Based Practice in Education
Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate in the UK regarding the notion of evidence-based practice as applied to education. Mirroring debates in the US and elsewhere, concerns have...
Pathways from Research to Policy: Implications for Researchers
In the last decade, there has been renewed interest in how policy makers in various fields use research in their decision making. Researchers wonder why some research ends up being influential in...
